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maintainer-script-empty

The maintainer script doesn't seem to contain any code other than comments and boilerplate (set -e, exit statements, and the case statement to parse options). While this is harmless in most cases, it is probably not what you wanted, may mean the package will leave unnecessary files behind until purged, and may even lead to problems in rare situations where dpkg would fail if no maintainer script was present.

If the package currently doesn't need to do anything in this maintainer script, it shouldn't be included in the package.

The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.108.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit a1e47cb. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check scripts.

Visibility: warning

The following 18 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 76 times (in any Lintian version).

There were no overrides.